It’s a truth universally acknowledged that moving house can be a bit of a nightmare. That being said, we would concede that your house literally moving, along with your whole neighbourhood and street, into prehistoric times with dinos roaming up and down the ‘burbs sounds like a much bigger nightmare — and looks like it too. Yes, the first trailer for It Follows writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s secretive new sci-fi movie The End Of Oak Street (fka Flowervale Street) has been released — and there be dinosaurs on the street where Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway, and their brood live. Check it out below;
“I think our house… our neighbourhood… our whole street… has moved,” says the Platt family’s mystified matriarch (Hathaway), framed in a glorious split diopter, in this enigmatic first teaser for The End Of Oak Street (a movie produced by none other than Super 8 sci-fi sage J.J. Abrams.) And she’s not kidding! No sooner have we been introduced to Hathaway, McGregor, and their visibly shooketh kids (Sweet Tooth breakout Christian Convery and My Old Ass‘ Maisy Stella) than we see the cause for their concerns. There’s really no other way to put it than to say that their house, neighbourhood, and whole street has moved, root and stem and tarmac, into what looks like a prehistoric jungle. And from that prehistoric jungle comes the roars — and some terrifying/cool glimpses — of actual, literal dinosaurs as Oak Street’s bewildered denizens scream “Run!” and flee in terror. And for now at least, that’s all we actually see… a teaser in the truest sense of the word.
The brief but dutifully mystery-building official synopsis for The End Of Oak Street reads: “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
Where have the Platts been taken? Why have the Platts been taken? When have the Platts been taken? How have the Platts been taken? And what in the name of Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are the Platts going to do about the great big whopping dinosaurs outside their front door? We’ll find out the answers to all of these questions, and more, when The End Of Oak Street stomps into cinemas on 14 August. Until then, consider our noodles well and truly twisted in the best way.
